Victoria is a very large asteroid circling the sun between Mars and Jupiter, inside the main asteroid belt. NASA JPL does not treat Victoria as potentially hazardous, because its orbit never carries it near Earth.
One lap around the sun takes Victoria 1,300 days (3.56 years). Over that circuit it swings between 1.82 AU and 2.85 AU from the sun, travelling at an average of 19.53 km/s. At 115.1 kilometers across, Victoria is bigger than 99% of known asteroids — roughly the size of the U.S. state of Delaware.
Victoria has been watched long enough to time its spin: one full turn on its axis takes 8.66 hours.
Its spectral type — S on the Tholen scale, L on SMASSII — suggests Victoria holds magnesium silicate, iron silicate, and aluminum.
At their nearest, the orbits of Victoria and Earth stay 0.82 AU apart. That is a comfortable margin, and it holds at every point in the orbit.
Orbital simulations run by NASA JPL's CNEOS turn up no close approaches to Earth.
The orbit of Victoria is pinned down by sightings going back to Sept. 18, 1850, the most recent officially logged on May 15, 2023. The IAU Minor Planet Center holds 3,834 observations behind that solution.
A ◯ pink circle marks where Victoria sits. It may fall outside your current field of view — use the controls below to change the position, location and time.